Subject: Re: compiler? teTeX package?
To: None <is@netbsd.org>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 12/01/2002 16:58:57
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running an 1-week-old 1.6 branch snapshot, and I'm unable to build a
> working teTeX out of pkgsrc.
> 
> - building finished once, but METAFONT would complain about not enough memory,
>   or just crash, building cmbx12's letter "I" (and some other fonts)
> 
> - after comparing the mf sources to a trusted source, I decided to rebuild
>   the binaries just in case, and found that web2c crashes with SEGV (address
>   0x6f72746e). This sounds like "ortn" to me, as in "portnumber", "fortnight",
>   "shortness" etc...
> 
> Should I be aware of compiler problems on the branch, or kernel problems that
> affect caching/cache synchronization?
> 
> Regards,
> 	Ignatios Souvatzis
> -- 
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A kernel I built a week ago from -current is exhibiting random segfaults 
in user-land, but I haven't tried a branch kernel.

R.